The name of Apple’s new family of laptops may be a little strange, but don’t let that fool you. Despite the MacBook Neo running on built-for-iPhone A-series processors and being limited to 8GB of RAM, it still offers what Macs do best. It has a capable screen, keyboard and trackpad and its overall build quality will embarrass other laptop-making rivals who have compromised in those areas with their $600 laptops.
Don’t expect a gaming rig – it predictably struggled to get going P’s lieBut for most things you need a laptop for – especially students and desk workers – it handles them with aplomb. Yes, I said confidently.
Check out our full Neo review written by Devindra Hardawar Surely you’re intrigued by the idea of a $600 MacBook?
– Matt Smith
This morning’s other big stories (and deals).
I don’t like the name Cyberdeck.
Rabbit
Project Cyberdeck Vibe is Rabbit’s attempt to create a PC suitable for coding. The company began work on Project Cyberdeck when its CEO Jesse Lew noticed how extensively his software engineers were using cloud code. Unfortunately, existing inexpensive, lightweight machines had poor keyboards and other limitations. So Rabbit is creating its own and it’s taking inspiration from the small, almost pocket-sized laptops that VAIO made in the late ’00s and early 2010s.
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Xbox wants to do something new.
To deflect attention from the corporate shakeup, fears of generative AI games getting worse, and a significantly worse performance than the PS5, Microsoft is taking the lead on its rival. At GDC 2026, the company said it planned to get the Project Helix dev console into the hands of game developers by 2027.
Jason Ronald, vice president of next generation for Xbox, reiterated that the new system will be able to play both Xbox console games and PC games. (Sony’s decision to stop porting its games to PC makes more sense.) Ronald said it will include a custom AMD-built system-on-a-chip, which will provide “a huge leap in ray tracing performance and capability.”
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Full of bots, but intentionally.
Facebook owners are buying Moltbbook, a Reddit-like social network popular for AI agents that has been around since January. The company has not disclosed terms of the deal, but MoltBook and its creators will join Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) when the deal closes.
And it certainly doesn’t sound like the faction of comic book villains fighting the Justice League.
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